Observing 2023-03-24 Mississippi Tornadic Weather with ProbSevere
Severe thunderstorms traveled across the Southeast United States on Friday 2023-03-24. In Mississippi, at least 25 people were killed by tornado outbreak. Notable damage was experienced in Rolling Fork and Silver City, MS. The governor issued a state of emergency on Saturday, the following day.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a total of 32 tornado reports for the area on 2023-03-24. The Weather Forecast Office in Jackson, Mississippi warns of continued severe weather for the remainder of this week, through 2023-03-31.
RealEarth allows users to layer weather data products over one another, allowing you to view multiple weather products for a specific event. Here, we look at NEXRAD Radar Reflectivity with ProbSevere. ProbSevere is a product developed at UW – Madison CIMSS and aims to assist forecasters in determining areas that may experience severe weather, such as tornadoes. ProbSevere uses a combination of satellite data, ground-based data, and numerical weather models. It can be thought of as a probability of severe weather. Note the area of severity over Rolling Fork, MS at the 1:00 UTC timestamp in the animation below. A bright magenta outline surrounds the Rolling Fork area. This corresponds to when a tornado was spotted from the ground, around 8:00pm local time.